Architecture of Necessity

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Ideas viejas lenguaje retórico. Ideas nuevas lenguas dialécticas (Old ideas rhetorical language, new ideas dialectical languages​​.)
Glauber Rocha

Torre de David - Caracas

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Tbilissi by Fabian Martinez

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Urbanized: A Documentary Film

Via: architizer

Interior infinito: holguin, gibara, habana

Santa Fe, Habana, 2005

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"Since necessity plays a central role in the generation and regulation of this kind of architecture, I associate it with natural forms known as stalactites and stalagmites, where the shape is the result of a fluid movement of materials attracted by gravitational force. In this popular architecture, the irrepressible movement of materials also produces a grid of lines and holes, a superimposition of layers and structures that, just as in the natural process of sedimentation, are supported one over the other. This fluid movement responds to a strength as powerful and unavoidable as gravity, the force of necessity.”
Ernesto Oroza from For an Architecture of Necessity and Disobedience, 2006.

Diagram of necessity. Updating City, 2011